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Juan vs Juanmiguel

American parents have registered 368,366 Juans since 1880, against 206 Juanmiguels. Juan is still ahead, with 2,318 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Juan against Juanmiguel, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Juan Juanmiguel

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Juan has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2009, when Juan had 6,300 and Juanmiguel had 42.

Side by side

  Juan Juanmiguel
Total US births 368,366206
Most in one year 8,25742
Babies in 2025 2,318under 5
Estimated living today 323,000200
Median age today 3016
Peak year 20052009
Best rank 55th boys2,847th boys
Rank in 2025 159thunranked
First recorded 18801983
Girls / boys 2,760 / 365,6060 / 206

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Juans alive today are over 30; half the Juanmiguels are over 16. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Juan and Juanmiguel.